Dorset Food & Drink held an event at The Lesley Waters Cookery School, Abbot’s Hill Farm, Halstock to celebrate Lesley joining the organisation as an ambassador to promote Dorset’s finest food and drink.

A non-profit organisation, Dorset Food & Drink has around 200 member businesses, and covers the whole local food scene from the small kitchen producer to the county’s top brands.

30 member businesses from across the county came to mark the occasion with Lesley, the Dorset Food & Drink team and corporate partners Porter Dodson. Dorset Food & Drink members contributing to the canape feast at the cookery school in Halstock were Dorset Pastry, Ford Farm Cheese, BV Dairy, Goldhill Organics, Capreolus, Dorset Blue Vinny, Wobbly Cottage, Brace of Butchers, The Watercress Company and Solkiki Chocolatemaker, winner of the Taste of Dorset Free From award last year.